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  1. October 11, 2026 The plain five-story apartment building replacing Grand Prospect Hall is nearly done, four years after the banquet hall was razed.
  2. October 10, 2026 The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music opened a $17.8 million second campus at One Prospect Park West, home to its music therapy program serving more than 3,000 clients.
  3. October 7, 2026 The 144-unit building replacing Grand Prospect Hall is nearly done; its 421-a units are pegged near 130% of area median income, a $4,738 two-bedroom.
  4. September 30, 2026 Arrow Linen sold its rezoned Prospect Avenue site for $55 million to a buyer who filed plans for 396 units, up from the 250 the Council approved.
  5. September 27, 2026 Safdie Architects released renderings for the Pacific Branch at Fourth Avenue and Pacific Street, Brooklyn's first Carnegie library, adding a skylight, a two-story solarium and an elevator; work starts next year.
  6. September 20, 2026 More than 61 percent of Park Slope homes sold above asking in August, the highest share in the city, as citywide inventory fell 5 percent year over year.
  7. September 16, 2026 Commissioner Tisch declined CCRB-recommended discipline for officers who shoved a cyclist blocking a sergeant from parking on the sidewalk by the 78th Precinct, Streetsblog reports.
  8. September 2, 2026 A new developer at the Arrow Linen site plans four 10-story buildings with 396 apartments instead of the 250 pitched during the rezoning, with affordability dropping to the 25% legal minimum.
  9. August 31, 2026 Police are looking for a man who approached a 38-year-old woman from behind on 15th Street near 5th Avenue just after 3 a.m. Saturday and sexually assaulted her in the street.
  10. July 20, 2026 Kay's Place, 44 affordable apartments named for a nun who spent decades trying to build housing on the site before her 2020 death, finished construction on 4th Avenue.
  11. July 12, 2026 A 250-apartment project at the Arrow Linen site sits stalled 17 months after Council Member Shahana Hanif won a rare deal preserving its full unit count, as the developer struggles to finance the affordable units he promised.
  12. June 28, 2026 A permit was filed for a 117,939-square-foot, 14-story mixed-use building at 294 4th Avenue, with Fariba Makooi of Fischer + Makooi Architects as the applicant.

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